UP issues system tweaks

Sometimes I get UP issues that don't make sense. Maybe someone should tweak these problems. Here are the ones I've seen happen:

Galactic cease-fire issue sometimes comes up when nobody is at war.

A ban on terror stars, before anyone has ever heard of a terror star. (They haven't been researched by anyone yet.)

Starbases must assist allied ships, but there were no alliances and in fact the Alliance tech had not yet been researched by anyone. Not only that, but I don't even think there were any starbases built yet either.

UP information center to house the 'growing' United Planets organization and its vast store of laws. This happened to be the first issue brought up in the game, and as such there were no laws currently on the books. In fact, there was only one other race at the table to vote on this issue, so obviously UP wasn't that 'big'. Maybe this issue shouldn't come up until at least two or three laws are being enforced, then it would make a bit more sense.
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Reply #1 Top
I've gotten the ban on Terror Stars within the first three years of one game. If the issue has no time limit, then it does make sense (prohibit them well before anybody builds them), but if the law is off the books in 3-5 years, then, yeah, what's the point of it coming up in the first place?


~SDC~
Reply #3 Top
Yeah, the UP issue system could stand to be a little smarter. It's on my list of stuff to tweak.